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On 3/25/15 11:28 AM, Victor Rodriguez wrote:
> HI everyone
> 
> Does anybody knows if there is a best known method/plan/test suite for
> moving from one version of gcc to another ?

Use the dejagnu test suite and other tests built into gcc, glibc, gdb, binutils,
and the prelinker..  (I've found the prelinker test suites sometime find obscure
issues relating to elf section handling.)

If those all pass, then most likely what you've done is in reasonably good shape.

--Mark

> I am in the middle of that painful task and wonder if yocto community
> has a plan every time yocto do this switch
> 
> Thanks a lot for all the help
> 
> Regards
> 
> Victor Rodriguez
>